Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Philip Edwards aims to bring the reader, playgoer and director of Hamlet into the closest possible contact with Shakespeare's most famous and most perplexing play. In his Introduction Edwards considers the possibility that Shakespeare made important alterations to Hamlet as it neared production, creating differences between the two early texts, quarto and folio. Edwards concentrates on essentials, dealing succinctly with the huge volume of commentary and controversy which the play has provoked and offering a way forward which enables us once again to recognise its full tragic energy. For this updated edition, Robert Hapgood has added a section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to the play. He discusses film and stage performances, actors of the Hamlet role as well as directors of the play; his account of scholarship stresses the role of remembering and forgetting in the play, and the impact of feminist and performance studies.

ISBN 0521532523   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521532525 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 439 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series editor Gibbons, Brian, Braunmuller, A.R. Format Paperback   Series title The New Cambridge Shakespeare Publication date 21 Apr 2003   Previous ISBN 9780521293662 Non-book description xi, 258 p. :   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress PR2807.A2   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 822.33   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, General, Professional / Scholarly Pages 270   Alternative ISBN 9781605145822

Introduction, with new section on recent stage and critical interpretations by Robert Hapgood; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Reading list.

'The introduction and commentary reveal an author with a lively awareness of the importance of perceiving the play as a theatrical document, one which comes to life, which is completed only in performance.' The Review of English Studies

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